Scarlet_Letter

Scarlet Letter One of the main topics of The Scarlet Letter was the guilt that Hester Prynne felt and repented for and the guilt that Arthur Dimmesdale felt and tortured himself with. Hester and Dimmesdale handled their guilt in different ways, Hester’s way obviously be the better of the two. While Hester repented for and publicly showed her sin, Dimmesdale sought to keep his hidden and reveal it at the same time. When Hester first appears in the book, one gets the impression that she is haughty and doesn’t care what people think of her or that she even wronged in the first place. While the former part somewhat holds true throughout the book, she does care that she committed adultery and accepts her penance for it. Often in the book she is shown to be a sad, miserable soul, and though she does have opportunity to change that, she never does because she knows what she did wrong and accepts, even embraces, her punishment. After a while people see that the punishment has had its effect, and try to put an end to it, but Hester does not allow that to happen. When people would thank scarlet, letter, hester, book, pearl, dimmesdale, while, people, one, even, punishment, letter, guilt, first, try, true, throughout, though, sin, repented, keep, governor, forest, felt, fact, end, die, despair, care, accepts, about, when, wronged, wrong, worked, without, willingly